CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

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Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.]

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DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

That's why mobile app testing is so important — because it allows us to predict failures and avoid losses. What Is Mobile App Performance Testing? Mobile app testing is a process of testing that is conducting in a simulated test environment to ensure its functionality, convenience, usability, and quality requirements.

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DZone

MAY 8, 2020

Software Testing comprises of different testing practices such as unit testing, integration testing, UAT testing, accessibility testing, etc. Every testing practice is having its significant importance and role in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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DZone

AUGUST 8, 2021

Several software tests can improve your digital products. Software scalability tests are imperative for any company operating in the digital market. Scalability testing and performance testing are ways to assess software capabilities. Performance testing focuses on response times and software quality.

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DZone

JUNE 9, 2021

Whenever we need to do performance testing, mostly it is the APIs that come to mind. Testing the performance of an application by putting load on APIs or on servers and checking out various metrics or parameters falls under server-side performance testing.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. What load testing tools did you use? As most things in life, by chance. What is your business model?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

How to start Kafka performance testing with JMeter + Pepper-Box plugin ? Is it possible to write samplers for JMeter on your own to provide Kafka performance testing? That is why it is a great opportunity to know what approach to choose for performance test design for this system component. Pros and cons.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

So, you want to learn about performance testing and progress towards performance engineering or DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering. Jumping directly into performance testing might be overwhelming. I was directed to learn the tool, then the performance concepts. I do not want you to go down that route.

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DZone

AUGUST 15, 2019

With All of the Free and Enterprise Tools Available for Performance Testing, There’s No Excuse for Having a System Failure. Performance tests reveal how a system behaves and responds during various situations. In terms of performance, we wish to achieve three main goals: speed, scalability, and stability.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2021

But back to performance testing where we measure the response times of our applications. Or if you were to look at the arrival times of planes at your local airport, you would see that most planes land in a [0.10min] interval around the scheduled arrival time, but then, from time to time, a few planes may be late by 1hr or more.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2024

Istio is the most popular service mesh, but the DevOps and SREs community constantly complain about its performance. Istio Ambient is a sidecar-less approach by the Istio committee (majorly driven by SOLO.io) to improve performance.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are certain technological combinations that can work wonders for a project, but, on the contrary, there will be scenarios where if the proper strategic analysis is not being done in order to measure the outcome of such combinations, then it can prove to be a real hassle.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But, performance testing is a little tricky. If you are working on Shiny apps performance testing, then this blog article is for you. This blog article explains load testing shiny apps using shinyloadtest package. Shiny from R Studio helps to build interactive web applications from R. What Is Shiny?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

According to App Annie , in 2019, consumers averaged 3 hours and 40 minutes per day on mobile (up 35% from 2017), highlighting the fact that companies from all industries stand to benefit from putting mobile at the center of their digital transformation strategy.

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In the software development cycle, testing is one of the important criteria. There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

When reporting summary statistics for performance test results, there's a common assumption that the data follows a central tendency. This article explores why it's crucial to check for modality of performance test results, how to detect multimodal distributions, and how to handle them. But is this always true?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The retail industry has been actively adopting digital transformation in order to provide a better user experience. According to current trends, the reliance on digital channels has been enormous, placing them at the core of all significant online retail operations.

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DZone

AUGUST 29, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll examine one such case where we use the Sentry JavaScript SDK to instrument Jest (which runs our frontend test suite) and how we addressed the issues that we found. We have high-level metrics for how well (or not) our CI is performing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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DZone

JULY 30, 2019

Performance Test Execution and Monitoring. In this article, we are highlighting a few points on what can be avoided for better performance when we test and monitor a load test. In this phase, virtual user scripts are run based on the number of concurrent users and workload specified in the non-functional test plan.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One of the most important aspects of optimizing Salesforce is performance testing. Performance testing is the process of testing a software application under load to identify any performance bottlenecks or issues.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2024

This article presents the most recent Memphis.dev Cloud, multi-region benchmark tests conducted in December 2023, explores how to carry out performance testing, detailing hands-on methods you can apply yourself, and provides recent benchmark data for your reference. The benchmark tool we used can be found here.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Having laid the foundation during the deployment stage, we’ll now explore the benefits of Dynatrace visibility and orchestration during the testing phase. T he testing stage plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of newly built code through the execution of automated test cases.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2019

Performance testing is a crucial part of the development process, but it is also one of the most overlooked steps in a development cycle. Not many developers are interested in doing rigorous testing on their codes to see how they perform under heavy load.

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DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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DZone

MARCH 17, 2022

End-to-end testing, or E2E testing, is a type of performance test go-through during the cycle of mobile app development. All of the functionalities of the product are tested from one end to another to ensure that the entire application flow functions without setbacks. Vertical E2E Testing.

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Not another figure to look at when analyzing performance test results! Most performance tools already report a bunch of them (e.g., Actually, the Coefficient of Variation (CoV) stands out as a valuable metric to prove that your application will perform reliably under various conditions. average, min, max, percentiles.),

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DZone

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Performance testing stands as one of the most crucial aspects of ensuring seamless functioning of applications. As organizations strive for innovation and rapid releases, the significance of evaluating software performance throughout its lifecycle becomes increasingly paramount.

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Microsoft launched the fully managed Azure service for performance test engineers and developers to perform high scale load testing called Azure Load Testing, currently in preview mode. It is quite a big announcement for performance engineers. What is Azure Load Testing? But the catch is PRICING.

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DZone

JULY 30, 2020

Selenium is one of the widely used test automation frameworks for automated browser testing. Selenium test automation is really helpful in testing websites or web apps on different combinations of browsers, operating systems, and devices.

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DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There are over 50+ tools and solutions available in the market for performance testing your application and services. Now it is time to check out Ddosify, a high-performance load testing tool that offers free and commercial features to test web applications and services over HTTP(S), HTTP/2, and other protocols are on their way.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

I’ve recently talked about a testing framework called Cypress. In this article, I will talk about another one: a pretty simple testing framework for REST API Automation called Karate. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed – which is critical for HTTP API testing.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Gatling is a quite famous and powerful open-source tool for performance/load testing and provides integration with CICD tools like Jenkins. It offers great reporting and an easy to use recorder and script generator.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing simulates real-user behaviors within an application or service to pinpoint potential problems. Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? RUM, meanwhile, requires actual users.

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